Sites of slavery : citizenship and racial democracy in the post-civil rights imagination / Salamishah Margaret Tillet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tillet, Salamishah.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Political activity.

African Americans.

Slavery--United States--History.

Slavery.

Memory--Social aspects--United States.

Memory.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

United States.

United States--Race relations--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals-including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker-turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.

Contents:

Introduction : sites of slavery

Freedom in a bondsmaid's arms : Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and the persistence of African-American memory

The milder and more amusing phases of slavery : Uncle Tom's cabin and black satire

A race of angels : (trans) nationalism, African-American tourism, and the slave forts

What have we done to weigh so little on their scale : African American reparations and the moral economy of memory

Epilogue the president's house, freedom, and slavery in the age of Obama

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613854537

9781283542081

1283542080

9780822391869

0822391864

OCLC:

808449997

Publisher Number:

9786613854537